20 Things You Didn't Know About The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

17. A Town From An Early Scene Is Straight Out Of An Earlier Western

The Good The Bad And The Ugly Town
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Hollywood is known for retooling its film sets, and this applies especially to westerns, whose simple facades and storefronts can be repainted and shuffled around to create entirely new towns with very little effort or expenditure.

Of course, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is an Italian-led production rather than a Hollywood one, and the film goes a step further by simply reusing an already-built set exactly as-is. The filthy town which Eastwood's Blondie takes Eli Wallach's Tuco for his first hanging is the exact same one from Sergio Corbucci's influential Django, filmed earlier in the year.

Nothing about the set was changed at all - in fact, it wasn't even cleaned between productions, explaining the worn down, muddy look of the place.

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